Vincent Doddema

10 Episodes, 10 actors, 10 fleeting sexual interludes snatched in modern-day Berlin in an bitter merry-go-round based on Schnitzler's theater-play Der Reigen.

"The impossible Love" is about love and modern city life during the difficult phase between 20 and 30, in which much for the future must be decided. A brother and sister living together after their parents' divorce, have their separate love affairs and discover that both have trouble establishing stable relationships. They finally find real love--with each other: an impossible love.

Matthias, son of popular rural Lutheran pastor Oskar Brendel and his wife Karin, about to graduate without honors unlike his emigrated big brother, is a pubertal rebel and hopelessly in love with local Maren Grothe. After he picks a fight at the village fair with her flirt and storms off, Maren s found comatose under the watchtower. Missing, Matthias is the only suspect, making the clerical family generally mistrusted. Karin finds her son, whose innocence she believes, apprenticing carpentry on the island where his buddy loves with his father Volkmann. Matthias explains he ran having seen his father Oskar refused ending an affair with Maren, who jumped as suicide attempt. The Brendels consider the due consequences.